2009 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards

Winners of the 2009 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards, which honor "authors from the Midwest Booksellers Association region and/or books about the region" and are voted on by MBA members, are:
Fiction: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
Nonfiction: Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting by Michael Perry
Poetry: Swimming With A Hundred Year Old Snapping Turtle by Freya Manfred
Children's Picture Book: Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Harry Bliss
Children's Literature: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean
Honor recipients:
Fiction: A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Nonfiction: Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the Worldd by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Poetry: Yellowrocket by Todd Boss
Children's Picture Book: Snow by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Lauren Stringer
Children's Literature: Savvy by Ingrid Law

Hugo Awards

The winners of the 2009 Hugo Awards, chosen by members of the World Science Fiction Society, are:
Novel: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Novella: The Erdmann Nexus by Nancy Kress
Novelette: "Shoggoths in Bloom" by Elizabeth Bear
Short Story: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang (Eclipse Two)
Related Book: Your Hate Mail Will be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998–2008 by John Scalzi
Graphic Story: Girl Genius, Volume 8: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones, written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; art by Phil Foglio; colors by Cheyenne Wright

Awards: Crimespree Magazine; World Fantasy Finalists

Sean Chercover's Trigger City won the 2009 Crimespree magazine award for favorite book of 2008. Other winners were Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais (best in ongoing series), Brian Azzarello (favorite comics writer), Money Shot by Christa Faust (favorite original paperback, mass market or trade) You can see the runners-up in all categories at Crimespree's blog, Central Crime Zone.

Finalists have been named for this year's World Fantasy Awards. The winners will be announced at the World Fantasy Convention in October. The shortlist includes:
Novel:
The House of the Stag by Kage Baker
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Anthology
The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Ellen Datlow
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant
Logorrhea edited by John Klima
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy edited by Ekaterina Sedia
Steampunk edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Collection
Strange Roads by Peter S. Beagle
The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
Filter House by Nisi Shawl
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan